Distinguished Lecture Series in Computer Science

The UW-L Distinguished Lecture Series in Computer Science attracts internationally-recognized leaders in computer science for lectures, technical symposia, and workshops. The series was started in 1990 and is supported through the UW-La Crosse Foundation and the College of Science and Health.

2017

Cliff Young

Member of Google Brain team and one of the designers of Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) which supports deep learning applications. Prior to joining Google, Dr. Young worked at D. E. Shaw Research, building special-purpose, massively parallel supercomputers for molecular dynamics.

2016

Shafi Goldwasser

RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and professor of computer science and applied mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.

2014

Vijay Kumar

UPS Foundation Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Fellow of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Member of the National Academy of Engineering.

2013

Katherine Yelick

Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. Recipient of the ACM Athena Award.

2011

Leslie G. Valiant

T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Recipient of the ACM's 2010 Turing Award, the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science 2008 EATCS award, and the 1997 Knuth Award.

2010

Charles Thacker

Leader of the Computer Architecture group at Microsoft Research. Recipient of the ACM's 2009 Turing Award, the IEEE 2007 Von Neumann Medal and National Academy of Engineering Charles Stark Draper prize.

2008

Frances Allen

IBM Fellow Emerita at the T. J. Watson Research Laboratory. Recipient of the ACM's 2006 Turing Award for pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of optimizing compiler techniques that laid the foundation for modern optimizing compilers and automatic parallel execution.

2007

Jeannette M. Wing

2006

Victor R. Basili

Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland.He was Executive Director of the FraunhoferCenter –Maryland and founder and principal of the Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL) at NASA/GSFC.

2004

Suzanne Weghorst

2003

Henry Fuchs

Fedrico Gil Professor in the Computer Science Department, as well as an adjunct professor of Biomedical Engineering and adjunct professor of Radiation Oncology of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Research includes virtual reality as it relates to medicine through three-dimensional biomedical imaging, as well as head-mounted displays.

2002

Yale Patt

Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Ernest Cockrell, Jr., Centennial Chair in Engineering, TheUniversity of Texas at Austin. Researcher in high performance computer implementation generally five to 10 years beyond what industry provides at that point in time.

2000

Ken Kennedy

Ann & John Doerr Professor of Computational Engineering and Director of the Center for High Performance Software Research at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

1999

David Harel

William Sussman Professor of Mathematics at theWeizmann Institute of Science in Israel. He is the inventor of the language of statecharts (1983), and was part of the team that designed Statemate (1984-1987) and Rhapsody (1997).

1998

Anita K. Jones

Professor of Computer Science in the School ofEngineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. Department of Defense, Director of Defense Research and Engineering from 1992 to 1996.